Sam Dente
Boston Red Sox 1947; St. Louis Browns 1948; Washington Senators 1949–1951; Chicago White Sox 1952–1953; Cleveland Indians 1954–1955
Percentile snapshot
1950 season — qualified batters
of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 480 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 46 | 189 | 168 | 14 | 39 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 15 | 0 | 1 | .232 | .310 | .280 | .590 | 58.4 | 60.5 | .290 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 98 | 296 | 267 | 26 | 72 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 3 | .270 | .328 | .326 | .653 | 67.5 | 70.2 | .315 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 153 | 625 | 590 | 48 | 161 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 53 | 31 | 24 | 4 | 4 | .273 | .309 | .332 | .641 | 63.9 | 70.1 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 155 | 654 | 603 | 56 | 144 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 59 | 39 | 19 | 1 | 1 | .239 | .286 | .299 | .585 | 47.5 | 51.8 | .277 | -1.5 |
| 1951 | 88 | 301 | 273 | 21 | 65 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 0 | .238 | .302 | .275 | .577 | 56.7 | 57.8 | .280 | -0.3 |
| 1952 | 62 | 155 | 145 | 12 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .257 | .234 | .491 | 29.6 | 38.3 | .236 | -0.7 |
| 1953 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 68 | 194 | 169 | 18 | 45 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .319 | .337 | .656 | 78.7 | 81.6 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1955 | 73 | 121 | 105 | 10 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .331 | .295 | .626 | 69.9 | 69.9 | .301 | 0.3 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-07-28 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1949-05-14 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-07-16 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1952-06-29 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1951-04-26 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-20 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.